# Lead Engineer Managed Containers

**Company**: Target
**Location**: Bangalore
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Engineer with strong platform engineering experience in designing, building, and operating cloud-native applications and microservices on Kubernetes-based platforms.

The ideal candidate will have expertise in modern application development frameworks, cloud-native technologies, and automation-first engineering practices.

Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-native platform solutions for hosting applications and services.

- Build, deploy, and manage containerized workloads on Kubernetes platforms.

- Develop APIs and microservices using Java, Kotlin, and/or Go.

- Implement GitOps-based deployment and operational practices.

- Troubleshoot and resolve platform and application operational issues.

- Improve application observability, reliability, performance, and scalability.

- Architect infrastructure solutions that enable automation, self-service provisioning, resiliency, security, compliance, and operational excellence while delivering an exceptional Guest and Team Member experience.

- Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality cloud-native solutions.

Required Skills:

- Strong software development experience with Java/Kotlin and frameworks such as Micronaut or Spring Boot.

- Experience with Go (Golang) and/or Groovy/Ratpack is a plus.

- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, API design, and distributed systems.

- Experience implementing GitOps practices using tools such as Argo CD or Flux.

- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.

- Hands-on experience developing, deploying, and operating applications on Kubernetes.

- Experience with caching technologies and SQL databases.

- Experience with public cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP); experience with AWS or Azure is also valued.

- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Kubernetes deployment tools, including Terraform, Helm, and/or Kustomize.

- Experience with observability solutions, including metrics, logging, monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Kotlin
- Micronaut
- Spring Boot
- Go
- Groovy
- Ratpack
- Microservices architecture
- API design
- Distributed systems
- GitOps
- Argo CD
- Flux
- CI/CD pipelines
- Kubernetes
- Caching technologies
- SQL databases
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- AWS
- Azure
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Terraform
- Helm
- Kustomize
- Observability solutions

### Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
- Engineering

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